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Ahmed_Eldosouk1
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Feb 11, 2019

URI Rewrite profile not use the full path of the url

Hi , I have configure content rewrite profile to make f5 as a reverse proxyso if a client request to http://10.10.10.216/tsp this will be the client side and for the server side i want my F5 to use this link to talk to my server http://10.10.10.216/signserver/tsa?workerName=TimeStampSigner1101/ but unfortunately F5 doesnt take the full URi it just talk to server using that http://10.10.10.216/signserver/ what i should do to make F5 to talk to server on the full url ?

 

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  • rafaelbn's avatar
    rafaelbn
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    Feb 11, 2019

    Hello Ahmed Eldosouki,

     

    I think that content rewrite profiles are meant to rewrite the packet payload, not the URL. I think you could achieve a solution by just doing a redirect? A simple policy that redirects the client to the new/complete URL should do the trick and be easier on BIG-IP's CPU.

     

    Cheers, Rafael!

     

  • jaikumar_f5's avatar
    jaikumar_f5
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    Feb 14, 2019

    Ahmed,

    I haven't completely played around with rewrite profile, so far been using Irules. But your requirement still should be able achievable through rewrite profile. May I know how you had the new custom profile created ?

    Because, 

    /signserver/tsa?workerName=TimeStampSigner1101/
    is still a URI, where 
    workerName=TimeStampSigner1101
    would be your HTTP QUERY, 
    workerName
    will be your QUERY PARAMETER and 
    TimeStampSigner1101
    will be its VALUE.

    So while creating your rewrite profile, did you follow,

    Let us know how it goes.

  • Ahmed_Eldosouk1's avatar
    Ahmed_Eldosouk1
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    Feb 14, 2019

    hi Rafael, Thank you for your comment, i didnt want the client to be redirected to any thing i just want to use F5 as a revers Proxy, by the way i made it using iRule and content Rewrite profile